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| *antibodies cannot protect a host against viral infections |
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| *Most antigens react directly with the cells of the immune system |
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| *Some forms of severe combined immunodeficiency can be caused by a single gene defect |
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| *Immune deficiencies can be either congenital or acquired |
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| *Persons with blood type O are considered universal donors |
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| *Antibodies to HIV appear within weeks of transmission through blood products, but within months after sexual transmission |
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| *Colonization is the first stage of infection |
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| *diseases caused by fungi are called mycoses |
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| *Stress has no effect on the development of cancer |
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| *Early treatment of fever is important because fever has no therapeutic benefit |
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| *Because spinal cord swelling increases the degree of dysfunction, it is difficult to distinguish between permanent and temporary loss of function until swelling has resolved |
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| *Guillain-Barre syndrome causes sensory neuropathy |
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| *Most people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis live symptom free for at least 10 years following diagnosis |
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| *Autonomic hyperreflexia is most likely to occur before spinal shock is resolved |
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| *Huntington Disease is inherited as an autosomal dominant disease with high penetrance |
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| *The peripheral nervous system is the main location of lesions in multiple sclerosis |
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| *Syndrome of inappropriate ADH is characterized by increased levels of diuretic hormone |
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| False; antidiuretic hormone |
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| *One function of the thyroid gland is to regulate metabolism |
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| *The brain doesn't require insulin for glucose uptake |
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| *The tentorium is located in the brain stem |
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| *Osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus do not affect the release of ADH |
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| * The neural center that controls normal breathing is believed to be located in the brain stem |
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| *Most of the blood vessels involved in the control of blood pressure are innervated by the sympathetic nervous system |
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| * parathyroid hormone mainly functions to control circulating magnesium |
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| *Thyroid Storm can be a life threatening situation |
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| *One result of lack of neg. feedback to the parathyroid gland is bone demineralization |
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| *the thymus is part of the endocrine system |
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| *Cortisol is necessary for life |
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| *Fever is part of a complex, integrated cascade of behavioral, neurologic, and endocrine responses to an exogenous pyrogen |
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| At birth, samples of blood from the umbilical cord indicate which immunoglobulin levels, if any, are near adult level? |
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| Which component of the immune system is deficient in people with infections caused by viruses, fungi, or yeast? |
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| Which is a characteristic of the HIV virus? |
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| The virus is a retro virus |
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| The presence of a pathogen on or in the body without tissue invasion |
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| What is the major cause of death world wide? |
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| Stress induced stimulation of the adrenal medulla causes the secretion of catecholamines, which include: |
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| Epinephrine and norepinephrine |
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| One systemic manifestation of an acute inflammatory response is fever that is produced by: |
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| endogenous pyrogens acting directly on the hypothalamus |
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| What are characteristics of cancer insitu? |
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| Cells remain localized in glandular or squamous tissue |
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| After the malignant change of the original cell, it must undergo_____ population doublings to produce a detectable tumor weighing about 1 gram. |
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| What is the most common route for distant metastasis? |
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| What is an effect of the sympathetic nervous system? |
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| increases blood sugar levels |
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| _______ pain is a warning of actual or impending tissue injury |
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| Pain ______ is the duration of time or the intensity of pain that a person will endure before outwardly responding. |
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| What occurs when one has "pinkeye"? |
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| inflammation of the conjuctiva |
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| Clinical manifestations of Parkinson disease are casued by a deficit in which neurotransmitter? |
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| Diagnostic criteria for vegetative states includes: |
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| return of autonomic functions ie. gastronintestinal function |
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| Why is edema of the upper cervical spinal cord after cord injury life threatening? |
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| because of apnea from impairment of the diaphragm |
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| What complication is occuring for a person who has a spinal cord injury above T6 and who is experiencing paroxysmal hypertension and has piloerection and sweating above the spinal cord lesion? |
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| arteriovenous malformation |
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| What hormone or electrolyte imbalance slows down the rate of secretion of parathyroid hormone? |
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| Which is characteristic of Guillain-Barre syndrome? |
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| it is preceded by a virus |
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| Which are characteristics of ALS? |
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| is results in upper and lower motor neuron degeneration |
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| What is an example of an exogenous antigen? |
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| What areas of the spinal cord are most easily injured? |
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| Cervical and lumbar regions |
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| A patient begins having problems with weakness, tiredness, and visual changes. Her diagnosis is MS. Which is the best description of MS? |
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| Is is a central nervous system demyelination, possibly from an immunogenic virus |
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| TSH is released to stimulate thyroid hormones and is inhibited when plasma levels of thyroid hormone are adequate. This is an example of what kind of hormone regulation? |
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Where is antidiuretic hormone synthasized and where does it act?
-hypothalamus, renal collecting ducts
-renal tubules, collecting ducts
-anterior pituitary, posterior pituitary
-posterior pituitary, loops of Henle |
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| synthesized in the hypothalamus, acts in renal collecting ducts |
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| When palpating the neck of a Graves Disease patient, what would the nurse expect to find? |
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| Diffuse thyroid enlargement |
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| What is not a type of CVA? |
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| What group is at highest risk for spinal cord injury? |
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